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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
NBA PLAYOFFS
Chicago.96
Washington.95
LA Lakers.90
Portland.98
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Milwaukee.4
Detroit.8
Oakland.11
Cleveland.9
Texas.6
Chi. White Sox.2
Baltimore.12
Minnesota.3
Anaheim.2
Boston.11
Seattle.2
NY Yankees.3
Toronto.1
Kansas City.0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Los Angeles.7
Philadelphia.5
Atlanta.12
Cincinnati.3
San Diego.2
NV Mets.6
* Chi. Cubs.5
Colorado.11
San Francisco.6
Pittsburgh.1
Houston.6
Montreal.8
Florida.2
St. Louis.6
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Albuquerque.0
Calgary.5
Tacoma.12
Salt Lake City.3
Las Vegas.6
Colorado Springs... 1
Tucson
Phoenix
6
8
Pappas provisionally
qualifies for NCAA meet
Oregon decathlete Paul Pappas provision
ally qualified for the NCM Championships by
recording a personal best 7,303 points at
Western Oregon Wednesday.
Pappas had personal bests in three events
of the day to notch his first NCAA provisional
score with the Ducks. His personal bests
were: 11.14 seconds in the 100-meter dash,
6-41/4 in the high jump and a 14.17 seconds
in the 110-meter hurdles.
OREGON SOFTBALL
CHAD PATTESON/Emerald
Oregon catcher Heather Holte throws to first base during the Ducks’ 5-0 loss to Oregon State in the first game of Wednesday’s
doubleheader. The Beavers went on to win the second aame 3-9 in einht inninos
Oregon continues to struggle against OSU
■ SOFTBALL:
The Beavers
triumphed in
two games,
leaving the
Ducks feeling
despondent
By Ryan Halvorsen
Sports Reporter
It was the Civil War and a war was exactly what it
turned out to be as the Ducks dropped two games at
home to Oregon State Wednesday at Howe Field in a
Pacific-10 Conference doubleheader.
Oregon State (26-25-1 overall, 3-12 Pac-10) took
the first game convincingly 5-0, but Oregon (18-29
1, 3-13) went down fighting in the late game, losing
3-2 in eight innings.
The second game was scoreless until the bottom of
the fourth inning when Oregon struck first.
Right fielder Lindsey Welch, returning after a four
game absence, led off the fourth with a walk. Two
batters later catcher Heather Holte doubled and ad
vanced to third on an error, driving in Welch for the
first run of the game. The next batter, center fielder
Melisa Lemke, drove in Holte on a single, giving the
Ducks the 2-0 lead.
SOFTBAU
The Beavers answered in the fifth,
erasing Oregon’s lead by scoring two
runs of their own. Oregon State’s
Alycia Stevens got on base with a
two-out infield single and Oregon
pitcher Maegan Christie loaded the
bases by walking the next two hit
ters.
Jodi Chmielewski took advantage with a base hit,
scoring two and knotting the game at 2-2.
Oregon State struck again in the seventh when
Stevens scored from second on a grounder to short
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Coach Larry Brown is
on the road once again
■ COACH:
Larry Brown quit
his post as Pacers
head coach and
then took a plane
to Philadelphia
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Larry Brown is on
the road again. He quit as coach of the In
diana Pacers on Wednesday and imme
diately flew to Philadelphia to search for
the next stop in his 25-year coaching
odyssey.
Expressing frustration with players he
felt he no longer could
teach and direct, Brown
resigned with two years
remaining on his con
tract. His four years in In
dianapolis were the
longest of his five stints coaching NBA
teams.
This season the Pacers finished with a
39-43 record and missed the playoffs for
the first time since 1989.
“I’m leaving because I think it’s time to
move on,” Brown said. “This year was re
Pacers
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Bowe, once lord of the ring, retires
■ BOXER:
The former
undisputed
champ will
become a
goodwill
ambassador
for HBO
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Riddick Bowe, boxing’s
last undisputed heavyweight champion, re
tired Wednesday, ending a career that at
times turned bizarre, with a paraglider, a riot
and an aborted stint in the Marines.
Bowe will become a goodwill ambassador
for HBO’s boxing community service pro
gram, traveling around the country for the
cable television network.
“Although my time inside the ring has
come to an end, it’s just the start of an excit
ing and important career for me,” Bowe said
in a statement released by HBO.
Bowe will be remembered as the man who
once dumped the WBC championship belt
in a London trash can and won his last two
fights against Andrew Golota on low-blow
disqualifications, one of them touching off a
chair-swinging riot in Madison Square Gar
den.
He will also be remembered for an epic
three-fight series with current WBA cham
pion Evander Hoiyfield in which he first
won and then lost the most glamorous title in
his sport.
“For me, this is a very happy day,” said
Rock Newman, Bowe’s longtime manager.
“For Riddick it’s a very happy day to step
into a new pursuit.
“At the same time, he’s leaving something
he’s been attached to for 16 years. He feels
that. More importantly, he’s doing the right
thing for himself and his family. I urged him
to do this. It was a deliberate process and
when he came to it, it wasn’t that hard to say
it, to say‘I retire.’”
Promoter Bob Arum said Bowe made the
right decision.
“I give him credit for not just hanging
around and picking up money,” Arum said
from Las Vegas. “I think he’s doing the hon
orable thing.”
Newman said Bowe’s career was like a
streak shooter in basketball.
“When Riddick was on top of his game, he
was as good as anybody that ever did it,” he
said. “His size, his deceptiveness, his quick
ness. ... He had one of the best jabs ever and
could be ranked with the best. ”